Only 19 days separate us from the start of Rich Rodriguez’s fifth season, when the Arizona Wildcats football team plays Brigham Young on Sept. 3 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.

As is customary on this Web site, we will count down the days with an interesting element associated with each day. This year the topic is the top 100 individual records in Arizona’s storied football past.

Ka’Deem Carey’s five rushing touchdowns — 10, 13, 30, 8 and 3 yards — against Colorado on Nov. 10, 2012, was just a part of one of the most memorable performances from a running back in Arizona Wildcats history.

Other records to fall that day against a struggling Colorado defense were Carey’s overall rushing yards and his all-purpose yards.

“Ka’Deem runs as hard and as angry as any running back in the country,” coach Rich Rodriguez said. “We did a good job up front today for him but he’s in great shape and he can take some of those hits. He always has really good vision but today you could see it with some of those cutbacks he had.”

Carey knew before gametime he was in for something special in the 56-31 win over the Buffaloes at Arizona Stadium.

“When I woke up this morning I knew I was going to try and break a school record,” he said. “I didn’t tell anybody but I wanted to get it.”

ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon.